The Witness Protection Program dumps JD Smith practically at
the ends of the earth—in Two Pines, Alaska—to protect him until he can testify
against a dangerous gang. He tries to stick to his story and keep his head
down, but it’s impossible to ignore bush pilot Jake Wylder, a sexy loner with
quite a reputation around the small town.

Flying medical supplies around Alaska suits Jake’s wild
streak and love of freedom. He’s perfectly content to keep his romantic
encounters casual—at least until he meets JD. Something about the nurse makes
Jake think settling down might not be such a hardship. Now he just needs to
convince JD he’s serious—which won’t be easy, given his past.

For a relationship to stand a chance, JD must testify so he
can return to Two Pines as the man he really is—and Jake must grow into the man
JD needs him to be.

Jake Wylder is a love 'em then leave 'em kinda guy, and he's not particular when it comes to gender either. Male - Female, it's all the same when you're horizontal. He's quite successful in business as well, doing what he loves, flying, and helping people at the same time. It's the selfless act of helping and not expecting anything in return that he and new-comer, JD Smith, have in common. From the start, Wylder is enamored with JD, determined to add another notch to his bedpost. What's odd is that Wylder wants more than just his obligatory one night with JD.

Short, sexy and steamy... my three favorite colors! What a delicious little read this was. I thoroughly enjoyed the game of cat and mouse, and the complete role reversal that took place in this story. The perpetual bachelor gets a taste of his own medicine when his attempts at getting JD into his bed are continually rebuffed. But it's not just Wylder's reputation that has JD pulling the brakes. The sexy nurse has his own baggage and, unlike Wylder's, JD's secret could get them both killed.

Just a well written story with these characters that pull you in, make you relate and cheer for them to make it work in the end. There is a healthy dose of passion and determination, a bit of romance, intrigue and suspense, and just a dash of angst. Definitely a must read novella. I give this one 5 stars... but that's just my two cents.

Release day excerpt:

Hello everyone! I thought I’d offer up another exciting
excerpt in honor of release day today! As you might have noticed from the blurb
and cover art, planes and flying are big parts of the story thanks to Jake’s
profession as a pilot. Unfortunately for JD, he has aviophobia, or a fear of
flying.

To set the scene, this is JD’s first time flying with Jake
as they make their way out to the Steese Natural Conservation Area to rescue an
injured hiker. Enjoy!

*****

The
bottom dropped right out of JD’s stomach when the plane took off. He’d suffered
through a two-hour bus ride and another three hours in a car on roads—some of
which had no business calling themselves such—just to avoid traveling to Two
Pines by air. The flight to Anchorage from California was bad enough, but at
least he had some Ativan for that.

Now he
was whizzing through the clouds in a tiny metal coffin hundreds of feet above
the earth.

There
might not’ve been any clouds. It was impossible to tell with his eyes wired
shut.

“Just
breathe,” Jake said from beside him, but his lungs felt like they were full of
sand, gritty and abrasive and coating his throat. “It’s really not that bad.
I’m an excellent pilot. I’ve been doing this my whole life.”

“Not.
Helping,” he bit out with a ragged breath.

“Okay,
well what does help is to think about something else, so… what, uh, do you do
for fun?”

“I try
not to die in fiery plane crashes. That’s pretty high up there.”

Jake
chuckled. “We have that in common. And it’s a good sign you can still crack
jokes.”

“It
really wasn’t a joke.”

“Okay,
how about I go first? I like to fly, but I guess that goes without saying and
really doesn’t help in this situation, soooo… uh, I like to fish. That’s pretty
common up here. Hmm, oh, I also love to go camping. Steese, the nature reserve
we’re going to, is nice for that sort of thing. Do you like the outdoors?”

“Only
fishing I’ve ever done was on a Wii.”

“I could
take you sometime.”

The lift
to Jake’s voice had his eyes shooting open and his head whipping around. Jake
was looking at him with a small yet hopeful smile on his soft pink lips that
stood out against the dark hair encircling them. It was ridiculous really, how
handsome he was. But he was pretty sure Jake was supposed to keep his eyes on
the… well, maybe not the road, but that wasn’t the point.

JD turned
away, screwing his eyes shut once more. “Pass.”

Jake was
probably a nice guy with all that charm and wit, but he was not going to be
swindled by a cute smile and puppy dog eyes. Unlike Jake—who rumor had it was
only interested in a quick lay—JD had other things on his mind. First of all
was not dying, and that extended to the gang he was hiding from just as much as
it did to the flying deathtrap they were in. Relationships and WITSEC didn’t go
together very well from what he’d heard.

The
second thing was family. He didn’t have one, but it was something he
desperately wanted. His parents had died within eight months of each other when
he was nineteen, which had left him on his own, his mother in a car accident
and his father of what he could only describe as a broken heart. He wanted what
they had, what he remembered they had, and he knew sleeping around wasn’t the
way to go about achieving that.

His
parents fought like everyone else, but they loved each other deeply. That’s
what he was looking for, that kind of connection, one that couldn’t be made but
just was. Though he wasn’t fool enough to think he’d find it in the frozen
desert he found himself in, nor in a playboy with charcoal curls and big doe
eyes, no matter how nice the accompanying smile was. He wasn’t fool enough to
think he’d ever find it, but settling just wasn’t an option.

The plane
shook, and he squeezed the arm he hadn’t realized he was clinging to tighter in
his vise grip. “Oh shit!”

“Just a
little air pocket, we’re fine,” said Jake, his soothing tone almost as annoying
as his arrogant one.

It took
twenty minutes before JD could stand to keep his eyes open for longer than a
few seconds at a time, and ten more beyond that before he released his death
grip on his trusty pilot. He was
going to be so glad when they touched down and he was no longer hurtling
through the air at a hundred and fifty knots—however fast that was—with some
guy who smelled like outdoors and man.

Lucie Archer is a student of the universe who is obsessed
with the stars, in love with beaches, and crazy about dudes falling in love.
She tells stories of romance, love, and life, with a little bit of passion
thrown in for good measure. Because what’s life without a little pop and
sizzle?

When she’s not writing, she can be found tending to her
garden, playing with her four-legged children, or procrastinating. Although,
she spends a lot of time fending off random plot bunnies that threaten to
derail her WIP’s.

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September 26: Love Bytes (http://lovebytesreviews.com)

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